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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Arrival and Meeting Miss Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) Each line is in a new color of ink.
(b) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.
(c) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(d) The type is faint and barely recognizable.

2. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) Families torn apart by war and violence.
(b) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.
(c) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(d) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.

3. When she learns the truth about being a twin, Margaret feels:
(a) Enlightened. She now understands her lifelong feeling of loneliness.
(b) Curious. She wants to learn more, and becomes intent on researching missing information.
(c) Elated. She is happy that she has a sister and is eager to meet her.
(d) Angry. She is furious that her parents had not told her the truth previously.

4. What is peculiar about the many interviews given by Vida Winter?
(a) She finds it fun to make every reporter cry.
(b) She prides herself on her honesty, despite her painful past.
(c) She has never told the truth about her life.
(d) She will never speak for more than thirty minutes.

5. Where, and with whom, will Margaret eat her meals?
(a) Always in the large dining room with Winter.
(b) Sometimes alone and sometimes in the kitchen with the children.
(c) With Winter and her extended family in the large and noisy kitchen.
(d) Alone, in her bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The following is said about Vida Winter's appearance:

2. As Margaret settles into her bedroom on her first night in Vida Winter's house, she rearranges which aspect of the bedroom?

3. In literature, what are examples of the "Rule of Three" which Vida Winter cites?

4. On her first night at Vida Winter's house, Margaret looks out into the night before going to bed. What does she see?

5. In the beginning of the book, who has sent Margaret a surprising letter?

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